"A nonfiction book detailing the case of Isaac Woodard, its influence on Judge J. Waties Waring, and how Waring went on to lay the groundwork for landmark civil rights rulings"-- February 12, 1946. Sergeant Isaac Woodard, a decorated African American veteran, was removed from a Greyhound bus in Batesburg, South Carolina after challenging the driver's treatment of him. He was arrested by the local police chief, Lynwood Shull, and beaten and blinded...